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Still getting attention in the foreign press this morning:<\/strong> The online targeting of Marwa Elselehdar \u2014 Egypt\u2019s first female ship captain \u2014 amid fake news that she was responsible for last month\u2019s chaos in the Suez Canal. (Washington Post<\/a> | Independent<\/a> | Times of Israel<\/a> | Entrepreneur<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Former prime minister and ex-IMF rep Hazem El Beblawi won\u2019t be held liable for <\/strong>the alleged torture of<\/strong> US human rights advocate Mohamed Soltan<\/strong>, who was imprisoned in Egypt between 2013 and 2015, according to the Washington Post<\/a>. El Beblawi was interim PM in 2013-2014. Soltan filed last year a federal lawsuit, but the US Justice Department asked last Thursday to dismiss the case after Beblawi was found immune<\/a> from court proceedings in the United States, having stepped down from his position at the IMF and left the US at the end of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still getting attention in the foreign press this morning: The online targeting of Marwa Elselehdar \u2014 Egypt\u2019s first female ship captain \u2014 amid fake news that she was responsible for last month\u2019s chaos in the Suez Canal. 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